Events

The Club Social for February will be at Sbicca Del Mar.  Happy Hour runs from 3:30 to 5:30 PM and features $4 off all bar bites and $2 off select wines and beers. As always, family and friends are welcome, as is anyone who'd like to learn more about our club and Rotary in general.  We are grateful Sbicca for being a supporter of our Sunset Soirée.    

Right now, Rotary Clubs around the world are pioneering the way toward global education. They are causing a radical change in the lives of children overseas - reducing poverty, violence, and religious extremism. It all starts with mothers. Amarok Society is proud to have partnered with more than a hundred Rotary Clubs to pursue a new model of education: instead of teaching children directly, we teach illiterate mothers to become neighbourhood teachers. This mothers-first approach to education is transforming entire communities. Amarok Society co-founder Gem Munro is on a speaking tour, raising awareness of the impact of this new educational approach and inspiring people with what's possible for the future.

The Mission Circle Cottage project returns to Rising Tide Ranch, a sober living facility, to build two more sleeping cottages.  You can help!  
The work will be similar to the Peace Village cottages, so painting, light carpentry, etc.  If you're interested, please register so we can let the project coordinators from Mission Circle know how many to expect. 

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The Mission Circle Cottage project returns to Rising Tide Ranch, a sober living facility, to build two more sleeping cottages.  You can help!  
The work will be similar to the Peace Village cottages, so painting, light carpentry, etc.  If you're interested, please register so we can let the project coordinators from Mission Circle know how many to expect. 

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The San Diego Blood Bank (SDBB) Bloodmobile returns to the Del Mar Civic Center on March 2.  Reserve your appointment now and encourage family and friends to donate as well.  
Email Karl Wagner if you'd like to book an appointment, or click HERE to sign up online at the SDBB website.  If you set up an account with SDBB you can view and track some basic analyses of your blood chemistry (e.g., cholesterol, hemoglobin).   

https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Wall-Life-Behind-Snakewall/dp/1732526591

Walking the Wall is the fascinating story of Del Mar's iconic walled estate, La Atalaya, better known today as the "Snakewall Property." Well researched and written in a comfortable and colorful style, Brier Miller Minor's book covers three generations of Burnetts, the well-to-do family that built the estate they called La Atalaya, and then migrated back and forth between the hubbub of Los Angeles and tranquility of Del Mar for nearly half a century. La Atalaya was built in the Roaring Twenties; struggled through the Great Depression, a devastating fire and World War II; and was lost to the family with the death in 1971 of the patriarch, the author's grandfather, cement mogul Coy Burnett.

And yes, Minor pieces together the puzzle of how the name "Snakewall" came to be.

Later chapters include the convoluted years of the next owner's tenure and the restoration of this magnificent property by its present owners. And in her brief "Afterword" Minor, recently retired after a rewarding career practicing and teaching Marriage and Family Therapy, looks back on her own childhood summers in Del Mar. Recalling hours spent observing the grown-ups and walking La Atalaya's wall with her siblings and cousins, she considers the role of walls, both physical and figurative, in all our lives.

Beyond its obvious attraction for anyone with ties to Del Mar, this book will also appeal to those interested in Southern California history, or in the family dynamics of wealth, through good times and bad.

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